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NETGEAR USB Control Center utility for MAC OS X El Capitan
NETGEAR USB Control Center utility v 2.22 is not compatible with MAC OS X El Capitan, where to download or make NETGEAR USB Control Center utility with the new MAC OS X ?
Hello All,
You may now download the official release of the USB Control Center Utility for MAC OS 10.11 and above from the link below.
I don't know if anyone else experienced this, but with the utility installed, I tried to disable SIP via recovery.This resulted in a kernel panic crash upon reboot. I needed to disable SIP to be able to run Parallels with a Bootcamp installation and it was not immediately obvious that Netgear USB Utility was at fault. The panic debug screen remains up for less than five seconds. Only after taking a picture of the screen during the crash did I note that buried in the debug notes was a line stating "Kernel Extensions in backtrace: ng.uds.netusb.controller(1.59)..."
Uninstalling the utility remedies the crash. This really needs to be fixed.
Hi KenV9999
That's part of what I was describing happened to me, in the post just before yours.
I guess you would know that if you use the "uninstall" utility in the Netgear folder (in Applications) to get rid of the Netgear utility (which is currently useless right now anyway) prior to attempting SIP disable, then the kernel panic crash does not occur. Sorry if I am telling you stuff you already know (in case someone else gets this problem), but once you get the kernel panic crash (because of the Netgear utility) you can do another recovery boot and re-enable SIP and then a restart should be successful.
Best wishes, Charles.
Thanks Charles.
I have other applications that aren't playing nice with SIP (like the above-referenced Parallels), but none of them are causing kernel panic. I posted it similar to yourself so that if someone else gets that error they know to look to uninstall the Netgear product.